I am pretty new to factorio but I am loving it. Spending far too much time on it...
I am currently trying to improve the efficiency of my train stations. On my current level I have 2 oil refinery train stations. One of them is far away and never gets picked as a destination by the trains and they instead queue at the nearer by lower output oil field.
I have "solved" this by disabling the stations if the stored oil is less that 140,000 (my trains have 6 wagons). This is grea but the problem is that when there are no stations that are full my trains just wait at the refinery, blocking it from other trains that do have oil.
To solve this issue I added a new set of stations called "Holding Area" so the train route is "Oil Field" (with multiple stations), "Oil Refinery" then "Holding Area"
The problem with this is that there is no Wait condition at holding area so the trains forever cycle between the refinery and the holding area.
I want my trains to wait in the holding area until there is an enabled "Oil Field" station. How can I achieve this?
There are quite a few options on the station for automation as far as I can see and I don't understand most of them. I hope that there is somethine in there that allows me to do this.
I know there will be a way!
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Many thanks for any help or suggestions.
I did look for a video tutorial on this sort of stuff but I didn't find any. It was all either basic train signals or train mods. If someone can link one that would be useful.